Compilation of adobe air app that uses ANE fails while using the flex ant tasks.

The resolution seems to be a hack - which when you rename .ane files to .swc, it works.

I came across this workaround here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11112705/using-ant-mxmlc-task-with-native-extension?rq=1

<mxmlc file="${app.root}/app.as"  
               output="${output.dir}/app.swf" 
               allow-source-path-overlap="true" 
               debug="false" 
               actionscript-file-encoding="UTF-8" 
               swf-version="19" > 
            <load-config filename="${framework.root}/air-config.xml"/> 
            <source-path path-element="${framework.root}"/> 
            <source-path path-element="src"/> 
            <source-path path-element="other"/> 
            <compiler.library-path dir="libs" append="true"> 
                <include name="**/*.swc"/> 
            </compiler.library-path> 
            <!-- THIS DOES NOT WORK -->
            <compiler.external-library-path dir="nativeExtension" append="true"> 
                <include name="**/*.ane"/> 
            </compiler.external-library-path> 
             
        </mxmlc>

However, if I rename all the .ane files in the nativeExtension directory to .swc the following change works..

            <!-- THIS WORKS -->
            <compiler.external-library-path dir="nativeExtension" append="true"> 
                <include name="**/*.swc"/> 
            </compiler.external-library-path>

Has this issue been addressed?

I'm using the following:

- Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler (version 3.7) for Mac OS X

- ActionScript Compiler 2.0

- Apache Ant wrapper located in "AIRSDK_Compiler/ant/lib/flexTasks.jar"

Let me know if any other details will be helpful.